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Category Investors Date 11/27/2006 |
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FPinfomart Adds Globe and Mail Content
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| Contract completes FPinfomart’s portfolio of major English Canadian news sources |
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(Toronto) CanWest MediaWorks Inc announced today that FPinfomart, the company’s industry leading news and business information service, will add Globe and Mail content to its portfolio of Canadian and International news sources, beginning January 1, 2007. This latest addition to FPinfomart solidifies its position as the largest and most comprehensive one-stop electronic resource for Canadian news sources.
Through an agreement between The Globe and Mail and CanWest MediaWorks Inc., FPinfomart will license The Globe and Mail and distribute content from the newspaper electronically through the FPinfomart product, including two years of archives and daily feeds. The Globe and Mail will be available to FPinfomart customers as part of the base subscription package.
“We are very pleased to welcome The Globe and Mail as our newest content source. This key Canadian source for national and international news and financial coverage broadens FPinfomart’s already extensive portfolio,” said Arturo Duran, President, Interactive and Business Integration, CanWest MediaWorks Inc. “As a result, FPinfomart customers will benefit from a one-stop source for complete Canadian and International news and business coverage.”
FPinfomart, available at FPinfomart.ca, offers unparalleled coverage of news and corporate data and is an essential resource for information professionals, business communicators and knowledge workers. FPinfomart has a strong subscriber base comprised of government, corporate and non-profit clientele and also provides pay per view services for the general public.
“Our contract with FPinfomart will extend the reach of The Globe and Mail content to many Canadian organizations” said Sandra Mason, General Manager Digital Media, The Globe and Mail. “This is yet another way that The Globe and Mail is providing our customers with more ways to access the news and content they most want.”
The addition of The Globe and Mail to the FPinfomart portfolio follows the recent addition of broadcast media monitoring, which provides real-time monitoring with clips available immediately after broadcast, and mobile services that allow FPinfomart customers to access content on the go. FPinfomart is a trusted source of news and business information for many businesses across Canada for its 24 hour, seven day a week, proactive media monitoring.
About FPinfomart
FPinfomart is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com), and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.cwmincomefund.com). CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. The Company also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
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For more information, please contact:
Tammy Bender
CanWest MediaWorks
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